Ma crise cardiaque le jour de la saint valentin February 15, 2022 After Church on Sunday I decided to scrape some snow off my back sidewalk. It wasn’t a big job but in short order I… Continue Reading
Cheating your way to the top February 13, 2022 “Cheating” may be too strong a term for what Pete Stauber did to lead his 1988 hockey team to the National Championships. I had… Continue Reading
Apocalypse Creep – This American Life February 12, 2022 In the safest of nations millions of Americans are suffering from human engineered climate change. Here are three stories worthy of consideration curtesy of… Continue Reading
Trever Noah puts Fox News’s coverage of the Mexican border invasion in a more northerly direction February 11, 2022 Continue Reading
Books I’ve read: 2-10-2022 February 10, 2022 Here are three books I’ve read in their entirety. None of them is listed on my “My Reading list” page. I would have read… Continue Reading
How corruption, dictatorship and Trump live incestuous lives together February 10, 2022 I created a new category for this post at this time. Its Democracy under threat. I post it at a time when 64% of… Continue Reading
Books I’ve read; 2-9-2022 February 9, 2022 Thaddeus Stevens Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian This was the best rated book on Republican Radical Stevens as near as I could tell. It wasn’t an easy… Continue Reading
Spying on RINOS February 8, 2022 One of Betsy DeVos’s more unpleasant relatives is this guy who finances ultra conservatives with his millions from selling weapons. The Times has a… Continue Reading
The books I’ve read; Feb. 8, 2021 February 8, 2022 This book is somewhere on the “My Reading List” page in my old Snowbizz.com webpage. I may never have started seriously learning a language… Continue Reading
The Books I intend to read: Feb. 7, 2022 February 7, 2022 This is a classic of American political literature that I’ve wanted to read for ages. I bought the English version many years ago and… Continue Reading
Today’s reading – the hits and the misses February 7, 2022 After a lovey and much improved night’s sleep I feel prepared to do some writing today. It helps that in recent days I finished… Continue Reading
Prevarication, Mendacity, Self Agrandisement February 5, 2022 I’m in the middle of two important writing self assignments. First, as with each week, a column for the Reader. These are helping me… Continue Reading
George S Robb Center for the Study of the Great War February 4, 2022 From the George S Robb Center for the Study of the Great War My Grandfather George Robb has posthumously lent his name to his… Continue Reading
A dishonest story about a cherry tree February 4, 2022 My Reader column this week published Feb 3rd, 2022 Continue Reading
My last Republican Precinct Caucus? February 3, 2022 Twenty years ago I attended what might have been my last Minnesota Republican Precinct Caucus. An hour’s search today through my old paper trail… Continue Reading
A very nice February First February 1, 2022 Monday I actually had a nice long sit down with the publisher of the Reader. We were both masked of course. We reviewed his… Continue Reading
Iron Will, My star turn February 1, 2022 The John Beargrease sled dog race is on and the drivers are having a tough time of it along Minnesota’s North Shore. Which got… Continue Reading
In case anyone in that school district that banned the Maus books needs one for their children… January 31, 2022 I have them both. Continue Reading
My Four year French language Report January 29, 2022 I actually hit the four year mark last November a little before my birthday. But my principal means of studying Duolingo soon tempted me… Continue Reading
